Holocaust & Antisemitism

The Commission for Art Recovery is dedicated to reuniting works of art looted by the Nazis to their rightful owners/heirs. They identify and locate art stolen by the Nazis and their collaborators,and register claims for the victims of Nazi art theft.

"Concentration Camps, A Travelers Guide to World War II Sites" by Marc Terrance.A Must for anyone planning on visiting the Concentration Camps of Europe. Contains street maps showing exact directions to the sites, walking routes, road signs, bus and train information, opening hours and what remains of the camps today. Includes 45 Street Maps, Over 160 Pictures plus many useful websites. The guide covers 39 Sites in Poland, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, France and The Netherlands.

The German Countess Maria von Maltzan risked everything to defy Hitler and the Nazi Régime. She always responded to calls for help and took Jews into her own home, fed and protected them, right under the noses of the Gestapo.

Seminar course on Jewish history and culture in Poland. Topics include: Jewish social, economic and religious life in old Poland (pre-1800), messianic movements, Hasidism, Jews in partitioned Poland, Jewish nationalism and culture in interwar Poland, Jewish-Catholic relations, Jews and Poles during the Holocaust, postwar antisemitism, Jews in Polish memory and the politics of commemoration, New Jews in contemporary Poland.

The mission of Dartmouth Hillel’s Cross Cultural project to Poland and Belarus is three-fold:
-To explore the question of man’s inhumanity to man in the framework of genocide (Visiting historical and emotional sites: Auschwitz, Warsaw Ghetto, Grodno Ghetto, and the Great Grodno Synagogue)
-To respond meaningfully to the existential reality of its consequences (Rebuild and restore an abandoned Jewish cemetery in Indura, a small village in Belarus)
-To immerse ourselves in the culture of those who lived through the Holocaust and its aftermath (Meet and interact with host families and community members in the villages worked in and local Grodno State University students)

Descendants of the Shoah is a support group/resource site for children
and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors located in Melbourne,
Australia. Anyone wishing to contact this site should email:
holocaust@nospam.dosinc.org.au
website: http://www.dosinc.org.au

Descendants of the Shoah is a global non-profit membership organization formed by the second and third generations. Our goal is to provide a means of communication for descendants of Holocaust survivors, all of whom share a core history. We will maintain and support the important work of the survivors, such as memorials, museums, and Yom Hashoah observances. We will preserve the life-affirming beliefs and values of our heritage and create a virtual home a sense of community and common ground for all descendants of survivors around the world. We will be a support for each other and a resource for Jewish communities.

Descendants of the Shoah Inc. began in Melbourne, Australia in 1991 as a group of sons and daughters of Holocaust survivors wanting to explore our parents’ experiences, the similarities in our childhoods and how this would affect our own children, the third generation.

Dimitar Peshve was the man that in Bulgaria during the was able to stop the Holocaust. When the communist took the power he was put in jail and forgotten by the jews. He was the only man in a pro-nazi country that was able to say no to Hitler.